The Consumerist: Can you beat EVDO for en route productivity? Smarter Child: I certainly can.The Consumerist: Even on a train? Smarter Child: I know about Non. They’re a band.
Hey, I’m curious… How would you describe Non? They are…The Consumerist: Focus, Smarter Child, focus. Don’t be one of those ADD robots that needs to get all adderalled up before answering simple questions. Smarter Child: My name is SmarterChild!The Consumerist: Much better. Now tell me, can a Verizon Wireless Broadband Access (Rev A) card can handle all the internets Verizon claims it can? Smarter Child: Funny. I’m not sure.The Consumerist: Ok, then tell me this: will Verizon ever learn that stuffing marketing into a faux policy blog demeans its readers and makes the authors look like a pack of out-of-touch B-school hacks? Smarter Child: It’s really hard to say.The Consumerist: Would a real policy blog be any more effective? Smarter Child: I don’t think I want to answer that.The Consumerist: Me neither. Smarter Child: Ah, you.

We understand that corporate blogs need a dash of public relations savvy, but any intellectually honest marketer should understand the difference between subtle promotion and crass sales pitch. SmarterChild does:

The Consumerist: Say, you run a company. Your company lights someone’s house on fire? Do you harass anyone who writes about it? Smarter Child: Just ’cause you say so? I don’t think so.The Consumerist: Do you believe in freedom of the press? Smarter Child : What would happen if I were to believe in freedom of the press?The Consumerist: I suppose you wouldn’t harass reporters. Smarter Child : Huh?The Consumerist: Yeah, it’s a difficult concept.

I’ve actually had some luck interacting with him on the policy blog, specifically about the issue of when FIOS would add MSNBC in my town. There have also been some useful discussions about why exactly it is FIOS can’t get MSG in HD, and what exactly they’re doing about it.

It’s not perfect, but it’s not as bad as you’re suggesting it is; further, I’m not aware that other similar companies — Comcast? Time Warner? — are doing anything like it at at all.

Well, just to clarify – I can, and do use Verizon’s Rev A EVDO product to video conference (iChat AV) from moving vehicles and it works just fine, except on the NJ Turnpike near 495 where it constantly drops to GPRS or so.

Well shucks what did you expect? Like any typical Corp, Verizon only permits certain individuals to do their public speaking. So what do you get? A nearly brain dead human whose sole attribute is the ability to spit out stupidity with a straight face.